David Epstein: Tribal Athleticism, Movement Generalism, Creativity | Ep. 79

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

David Epstein writes about the developing science around sport -- from performance-enhancing drugs to the lucky genetics that separate a professional athlete from a duffer. A science writer and longtime contributor to Sports Illustrated, he's helped break stories on steroids in baseball, fraudulently marketed health remedies, and big-money irregularities in "amateur" college football. In 2007, inspired by the death of a childhood friend, he wrote a moving exploration of the most common cause of sudden death in young athletes, a hard-to-diagnose heart irregularity known as HCM.

Now an investigative reporter at ProPublica, Epstein is the author of The Sports Gene, a book that explores the complex factors that make up a championship athlete. Is there such a thing as natural greatness, or can even extreme skills -- like the freaky-fast reaction of a hockey great -- be learned? Conversely, is the desire and will to master extreme skills something you're born with?

Learn more about his fantastic work at http://thesportsgene.com/

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0:00.0	I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.
0:08.0	It's about how hard you hit.
0:10.0	It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
0:13.6	How much you can take and keep moving forward?
0:16.4	Join moving movement expert Aaron Alexander
0:19.3	as he dives into the minds of the foremost innovative health care thinkers and movement masters on their
0:25.4	approach to optimal health and wellness.
0:28.0	A Line Podcast.
0:30.3	And I am going to turn the game down because it's too freaking high.
0:32.8	Welcome back to the Lyme Podcast.
0:34.4	My name is Aaron Alexander, and in today's fabulous episode,
0:38.3	I got to chat with Mr. David Epstein.
0:41.8	David Epstein once again, as most of these people, hopefully you know him by now.
0:46.6	He is a New York Time Bestling Author of the great book I'd recommend to anybody called
0:52.4	the Sports Gene Inside Science of
0:54.3	extraordinary athletic performance. He is an investigative reporter for
0:59.8	ProPublica. He is a runner, he is a really sweet guy in general, really fun conversation.
1:08.8	In today's chat we got into various pedagogy's various educational approaches from all around the world
1:16.0	what works and what doesn't and how movement is just so so valuable in the role of education. We got into athletes from various cultures and tribal
1:28.8	cultures especially. We got into his writing career, got into all sorts of good stuff. I hope you guys enjoy.
1:37.0	The Americans come by and set up all their equipment, they got all this biometric stuff and sensors,
1:42.0	and this coach is like, oh, crap, crap like we're not going to be able to
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